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I know what you mean, just saying relative to French revolution, they not only had no such surveillance tech but also no such tech for organizing protests and stuff. Which one tops which in US?
Perhaps if you need that much boilerplate it's not going to be a well-architected codebase in the first place. Abstract it out, make a lib out of it. Easier to review & test in separation. Loose coupling, high cohesion.
To adequately validate work you must be at least at the same level, so if you were right (which dunning-kruger suggests unlikely) that would mean your "terrible" average employee is given a tool that will 10x their output which they cannot even check for correctness. And correctness will be low if the average employee is bad like you say, because it means they will give badly specified tasks and even with the best of us it's garbage in, garbage out. I am sure there is no way this can backfire.
It's kind of true:
... federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists.
This new effort follows President Donald Trump's National Security Presidential Memo 7, which instructs the Department of Justice to target anyone holding “anti-American,” “anti-Christian,” and "anti-capitalism” beliefs.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti...
To be fair though in the times of French Revolution the surveillance capability was really basic compared to today, the tech capability to organize protests was lower too. Which one prevails? We know that in PRC and maybe Russia it's surveillance, but what about US?
That's only two ways to get paid, so it's either title is wrong or there's a missing part.
The article you linked doesn't do much to refute "data centres are acoustic weapons", just insists that symptoms are explainable by audible noise pollution. Sure, that makes it better?
Data centers behave as acoustic weapons: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo
If you fight either of those things in the US, you should do so carefully, as it may get you to be targeted by FBI and DHS as an extremist actor as per current government's policy as of approximately a week ago.
This is a wall of text but genuinely worth skimming: https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti...
Good point.
Chrome's model is based on copyright infringement and court cases are pending regarding legality. Even if spellcheck dictionary was 4 GB, installing bloated but legal software is different.
Hold on. Does this mean ER diagnoses are marginally better than pure chance?
At least for private households, it's not mandatory to have surveillance cameras at home. If you do have one though, they will demand footage and can deny your claim if it was off, or worse. https://youtu.be/UMIwNiwQewQ?t=903
The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply.
So, it's because of LLMs guys.
Fact.
I don't want my audio interface to run SSH (and have some random authorized key added), personally.
Ordering is inconsistent.
Is it different with a smartwatch? You buy the kit, it's not like you solder much as far as I understand.
I thought so too, but after quick research apparently there are kits. For various values of "DIY", I guess...
s/Watch/Smartwatch
Regular DYI watches aren't big news...
(I would be over the moon for a DIY smartwatch with zero AI and e-ink screen.)
It was a rhetorical question because obviously there was a reason. The question is whether you didn't put much thought into what you write or it was a Freudian slip. "No" would be your reply in either case.
He never writes about the erosion of race and the universalization of knowledge.
Who said that erosion of race and universalization of knowledge is a good thing? The article sure didn't.
If we agree that diversity is better than monoculture, we agree that we want more different subspecies with different ways of seeing reality.
The stones were an unreliable guide to action, since what was not shown could be more important than what was selectively presented. A risk lay in the fact that users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones: in The Lord of the Rings, a palantír has fallen into the Enemy's hands, making the usefulness of all other existing stones questionable.
They are somewhat involved but when AI is mentioned Meta's thing is far down the list...
Are you so sure that replacing humans is "enormous social good"? For whom is it good, exactly?
Also, capturing keystrokes and mouse movements only when at work and on work computer isn't really constant surveillance. Capturing all our code, text, photo and video (made at work or at home) seems worse and we don't bat an eye.
The shit sandwich is the sneaky idea that any "subsection of humanity" should dictate anything. Weirdly it's always a subsection that the speaker happens to be in or be friends with. I don't know about you but I know I don't want that shit sandwich.
I thought mass quitting in solidarity would happen when programmers realize how their work is used to train AI and replace them. How many quit because of that? Doesn't seem like many.
Apparently, money wins over principles for 99% of us. How is this different and how are we better than Meta employees?
This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do.
Interesting phrasing. So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something?
Is there a reason you didn't go with
No subsection of humanity should be dictating anything and yet these techbros always do.
If you believe in unhackable, maybe you're not familiar with security enough...
Let's all thank the AI industry for this.
What if they jumped between saunas? And with self-reporting, the more you ask I guess the less precise the result... Sensors, however...